anti-inductive situations: forum for week of 17 October

I was supposed to have contributed in Group 4 the week of October 3rd. I apologize for the delay.

My case for the problem posed above is the graphing of a nerve impulse. You can find a basic graph here:

Membrane voltage remains at resting potential until a stimulus excites it to the threshold voltage. Other stimuli may precede the ultimate stimulus of the nerve impulse; however, if they are >-55 mV (based on graph above) then the nerve impulse will nto occur. Once the threshold voltage is reached the neuron 'fires' or depolarizes and repolarizes (this is called the action potential) and is represented by the big hump on the graph. Immediately after this period the graph briefly dips below the resting potential (this stage is called hyperpolarization), and then finally returns to resting potential to await another < or = -55mV stimulus.

The simplest line through a set of data points is not what one would predict for the graphing of small incremental increases in voltage within a neuron. This is because of the function of the threshold voltage.